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  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (June 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596004966
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596004965
  • Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.4 x 7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 starsPlease update for C++11
By Polyglot on April 19, 2012
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This pocket guide is decent for C++03, but it's 2012. I know C++ is huge, but the awesome new features of C++11 deserve to be documented. I'll buy the new pocket guide once an updated version comes out.
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4.0 out of 5 starsGreat pocket reference
By ueberhund VINE VOICE on July 6, 2003
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The C++ Pocket Reference is designed for C or Java developers who occasionally program in C++ and need a syntax reminder. Not designed as a tutorial or provide lengthy instruction on the subject, this book is great for a one paragraph explanation on a particular topic.
I found this to be a very useful and easy to follow book. It starts out with the basics of writing a C++ program (processor directives, data types) and slowly moves into more complicated aspects of this language (like templates and memory management).
I would highly recommend this as a reference book if you find yourself occasionally doing some programming in C++.
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3.0 out of 5 starsGood coverage of core language but not standard library
By Steve E. Chapel on June 18, 2011
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I used to know C++ very well but have done little C++ programming in the past decade. I was hoping this book would include all the niggling little details I had forgotten. Looking through the book jogged my memory to help me remember these details, but I was surprised to see how many were not explicitly stated in the book. Perhaps the best example of a detail not included is the difference between overloading the preincrement and postincrement operators. One of them takes an extra dummy parameter, but the book does not mention this difference. The book explains how to declare a multidimensional array when the dimensions are known at compile time, but does not give a code sample explaining how to do so when the dimensions are not known until run time. The section describing return codes from main does not explain that zero indicates success and a non-zero value indicates an error.

Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of the book is how little is devoted to the standard library. No math functions are described. There is no discussion of how to format output. I was even hoping for discussion of the most basic uses of the STL. Instead, the book lists only the names of the header files and the four standard input and output streams with the most basic unformatted uses of these streams. The book covers the core C++ language fairly well, but almost none of the extensive standard library.
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent as intro for C and Java Programers
By Gary N. Griswold on June 30, 2004
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For many years, I did most of my programming in C, but never learned C++. In recent years, I have been using Java mostly. Now I wish to get back to C++, and I have found this book to be an excellent introduction. In order to read this book one already needs to know how to work with the very low level aspects of C, and at the same time one must understand object oriented concepts. But for the reader who is at such a place, this book provides a very concise description of the C++ language. In just 125 small pages, the author manages to step through all of the aspects of the C++ language and concisely describe them.
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4.0 out of 5 starsYou get what you pay for
By Andrew Krause on February 15, 2007
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If you are looking for a quick and dirty C++ pocket reference, this book should be on the top of your list. It covers all of the necessities, which is great for when you are switching between programming languages. If you have too many languages in your mind, a quick reference is a great little refresher, which this book certainly provides.

My only qualm, and the reason it loses a star, is that the organization is not completely intuitive. However, after a few uses, you get used to this and it becomes a non-issue. I suppose you would have this with any book.
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5.0 out of 5 starsa great tool to quickly reference/learn C++ concepts you are unsure ...
By Gabriel S on November 23, 2014
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-A great tool to quickly reference/learn C++ concepts you are unsure about, forgot, or have heard of but are not quite sure how to implement. I'd also like to add that I am mostly self-taught in C++ programming, and I regularly use online resources such as cprogramming.com, tutorialspoint.com/cplusplus, cplusplus.com, and stackoverflow.com, in that order, ***and yet I have been very happily surprised by this book*** to see that it sometimes gives better explanations and more concise and clear information (and even more information in some cases) than the online resources. In other words, this little booklet is a great supplement to those other online resources just mentioned, and it is very portable and especially useful in cases where you don't have internet as readily available.
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4.0 out of 5 starsAmazing amount of info in a small package
By eyedempotent on February 7, 2012
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First of all, I've come to the realization that the way I learn is through short books and then coding myself. A big book just doesn't do it for me, I get buried in the details and forget most of what I've read. I'm new to C++ and have read through most of Accelerated C++, which is a good book. But it wasn't until I took this pocket reference on a plane trip and read it that everything started coming together. I don't know how they do it but they manage to put examples in there as well, so it was very useful for me. I saw ALL the basics of the language right beside each other and understood better how they inter-relate.

I will say this better not be your first C++ reference. The order in which topics are treated is somewhat asynchronous. Properties are referenced in the beginning of the book that aren't explained for 50 pages down the road. But if you're already at least familiar with most topics it works out fine.
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2.0 out of 5 starsHalf the Reference Desired

Not as complete as the pocket references from O'reilly for Java (8) or Python. Perhaps dated as well. Read more

Published 2 months ago by J. Chi
3.0 out of 5 starsIt's by far the smallest pocket reference book I have ...

It's by far the smallest pocket reference book I have from this collection. It's only covering the base language itself and that's it. Read more

Published 12 months ago by S. Vallee
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat read

Great book for those wanting an overview of C++. I love how he starts off shallow and wades in deeper for each section.

Published 12 months ago by Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

mint condition. very helpful book

Published 15 months ago by James Walter
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

This book arrived in very good condition.

Published 21 months ago by DGR
3.0 out of 5 starsThree Stars

Very basic info here.

Published 23 months ago by Kevin Zmijewski
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Just as described.

Published on December 8, 2014 by Ken Young
2.0 out of 5 starsTwo Stars

Weak ...

Published on October 31, 2014 by KA
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Great for the quick "What is the syntax for that?" Questions!!! Use it almost every day!

Published on August 25, 2014 by Roadrunner75
1.0 out of 5 starsBeginners Beware

I'm just learning to program in C++ .. I wished I would have waited to purchase this reference book later. It has a few good things that the beginner will find useful. Read more

Published on June 7, 2014 by Papagym

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